Residents of Red Hook are upset after a 1927 report by the Subcommittee on the Causes of Crime of the New York State Crime Commission pointed to the Brooklyn neighborhood as a hotbed of juvenile delinquency.  A 2011 Brooklyn Public Library blog, "Rumble on the Docks: Teen Warfare Hits Brooklyn" says that report declared that Red Hook had the "third highest number of juvenile delinquents of any comparable area of its size in the world."  The neighborhood and its biggest employer Todd Ship were indignant. 

[The Red Hook WaterStories team notes that this is part of a bigger story not yet fully told here]

Transcription from the New York Times, March 25, 1927:

 SMITH WANTS REPORT ON RED HOOK EXPLAINED
To call head of crime committee today, it is announced at protest meeting

 Residents of the Red Hook section of Brooklyn held another mass meeting last night in P.S. 30, Conover and Wolcott Streets, Brooklyn, to protest against the recent report on conditions in Red Hook by the Subcommittee on the Causes of Crime of the New York State Crime Commission.

 William H. Todd, President of the Todd Shipbuilding Corporation, said that 80 per cent of the men living in the Red Hook section worked in the shipyards and that he had not found them potential criminals or gangsters.

 The Rev. George W. Groves of Christ Temple Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, asserted that whereas the report had declared that the ignorance of parents in the Red Hook section handicapped the children, the publication of the report had really handicapped the children living in the section more than anything else could.

 R. F. McCornick, principal of the school in which the meeting was held, praised the residents of the section as he had known them during the last fourteen years and quoted a probation officer of the Children’s Court as saying that during the last year there had been no need for his services in this section of the city.

 The report on the Red Hook section of Brooklyn found a defender yesterday in Nelson B. Nelson, Chairman of the Committee on Survey of the Brooklyn Boys Work Council, recently organized under the joint auspices of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities.

 He says that the reason so much criticism has been made of the report by Red Hook residents is that they have not carefully read the report.